Re: [Paddlewise] april fools day?

From: Julio MacWilliams <juliom_at_cisco.com>

> I got a mesage from Mr Sponson Head (1) where his last name was
> misspelled so that it made it through my filters. It is probably 
> someone's bad taste April fools joke. 


Oh, I dunno... I think he did it on purpose because he got through
my filters, too.  :-O


> Not everyone in this list lives in the USA; outside of McDonald's
> and Microsoft country April 1 is a day just like any other and those
> kinds of jokes are not appreciated, so please be considerate to our
> international friends on this list.


Actually, it is believed that April Fools Day has it's roots in French
history (long before computers :-) and was eventually adopted by the 
English and Scottish and then brought to America.  Americans were a bit
slow to get the joke :-)  
 

> Just as a side note, in many countries
> the "fools day" is Dec 28. That means that a large percentage of people
> in California has to put up with 2 fool's days a year. 


Huh?  Howzat?

You can relax :-).  Though he has tried several times, "Mr. Sponson 
Head" hasn't been able to get through to PaddleWise.  

btw, not only is Tim's last name mispelled, the email address and
URL are wrong.  But the content is real quotes from Tim (taken from
many different messages of his of which he provided us multitudes 
that were equally as "coherent" :-)




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